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J. ADAMS. MACHINE FOR FASTENING BALE TIES.

No. 65,856. PatentedJune 1a, 1867;

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JOSEPH ADAMS, OF'NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA.

Letters Patent No.65,855, dated June 18,1867.

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Be it known that I, JOSEPH ADAMS, of the city of New Orleans, parish of Orleans, State of Louisiana, havcinvcnted a Machine for Fastening Buckles or Cotton-Bale Tics on to the hoops intended to be used for haling cotton, moss, hay, or any other similar packages for which such ties are used, and for any other purpose to which said machine may be usefully applied and I do hereby declare the following to he a full, clear, and exact description of the same, suiiicicnt to enable one skilled in the art to which the' invention nppertains to make and use it, reference being bad to the accompanying drawings, which form a part of this specification, and in which Figure 1 is a perspective view of the machine, opened and ready for use.

Figure 2 shows the machine closed, with the position of the bent hoop and buckle attached therein.

Figure 3 represents the hoop with buckle attached when removedfrom the machine.

Figure 4, an end view of the same.

Thcordinary mode of applying buckles or iron ties to hhops is to bend one end'of the hoop to which the buckle is to be attached, either by hand with a hammer or by a machine usually made of cast iron, ten or twelve inches long, four or live inches wide, and one or two inches thick. On one end of this machine is placed a halfrcvolving handic, which, when opened for use, lies horizontal with the machine :indon a level with the face or bed of the machine, the width of the handle for a few inches from its base or hinge being about the same width of the hoop to be bent, and its length about the some as the bed of the machine. At tho-pointwbcrc the bend '3 to be made in the hoop, and near the hinge on which the handle revolves, a small bar is attached to the bed of the machine, the length required bythe width ofthc hoop,"mcasuring from the edge of the machine next to the operator. This bar or projection must be firmly fastened to the bedof the machine so as to hear a heavy pressure. The end of it projecting. toward the operator must be elevated, free, and open, so as to allow the operator to run the hoop under the bar whcnthe hoop is resting on the bed of the machine, either lengthwise or sidowise, as he may prefer. This elevation need not bcmore than two thicknesses of the hoop, unless allowance is ,to be madcfor paint, guinming the machine, 880. The thickness of the bar will be determined by the required room in the loop of the hoop to be bent over the said bar, and its width is regulatcd to suit the maker, say one or three inches. When operating the machine, as before remarked, the bed of the machine and Lhehandle, when opened or extended to receive the hoop, must be on a level the end of the hoop to be bent must then pass under the bar and project over the hinge and on to the handle a few. inches The handle is then quickly reversed forward, lapping the end ofthe hoop which rested upon it over the bar above described, the handle covering the machinclin its closed position. v The handle is then returned to its horizontal position, leaving the end of the hoop lapped over the bar. The space under the har being solid and smooth, free and open toward the operator, the hoop in its bent condition is slipped 011' of the bar towards his person and passed to another table to have the buckles attached. This requires an additional hand, who inserts the looped or bcnt hoop through the slot or opening in one end of the buckle or tie and hammers the loop end down flat with the hoop to prevent the buckle from becoming disengaged from the hoop.

My improvement, which I shall now describe, dispenses with this last operation entirely, as my machine both bonds the hoop'and adjusts the buckle at the same time, and by one motion and the same operator. The body of the machine and the handle are suhstantielly the same as in the above-described machine now in use, and are operated in the samemanncr, as described.

My improvement consists as follows: First, in cutting into the bed A of the machines groove or mortise, C, at the point at which the bend of the hoop is to be made. This mortise must be large enough to'adinit the buckle or tie D intended to he used, and so arranged that the slot E in the tie through which the hoop L is to pass will be even with the bed of the machine and the top surface F of the handle B, whencxtended, and on which the end of the hoop is to lie. The top or mouth of the mortise is filed away, H H, on either edge, so asto form an oval shape, and allow tho'sink-ing of the hoop and tie into it, when the force is applied by the handle, room being left in the bottom of the mortise G to allowof said depression. Immediately over the mortise in which the tie is inserted I place a spring, G, in lieu of the bar, as described in the old machine. This spring is firmly fastened at one end'iii the bed of the machine, the other projecting horizontally over the tie in the mortise and slightly elevated above so as to spring down upon the tie D when the pressure "the handle comes upon it. This forces the tie D, together with the hoop L, down into the mouth or oval shape of mortise H H, while the oval shape in the handle, at the point I, gives a similar shape to the hoop on top when forced by the handle over the spring G, as shown in fig. 2. This oval shape in' the bent hoop allows the tie D to turn readily in the hoop, as if on a hinge, as in K K, fig. 4, the end of the hoop being forced close down at the point L L, preventing the buckle or tie from sliding oil.

Having described my invention. what I claim therein as'ne'w, and desire to-secur'e by Letters Patent, is

1. The mortise C in'tlie bed of the machine, toadmit the tie buckle or fastening; and to' accomplish its.

adjustment to the hoop by the same motion which bonds the hoop.

2. The spring G, as set forth above. 3. The indentation 0mm shape in the handle, at the point I and at the points H H, to form the bend over and under thespring G, substantially as described and represented.-

' JOSEPH ADAMS. -[L. 5.]

Witnesses:

R. G. LATTING, W. B. PHILLIPS. 

